Book info

• Title High Fidelity
• Author Nick Hornby
• Year 1995
• Genre Contemporary

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable break-ups? Rob does. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. Finding he can't get over Laura, record-store owner Rob decides to revisit his relationship top hits to figure out what went wrong. But soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about relationships, about life and about his own self-destructive tendencies.

Thoughts

I really loved the film of this but it’s taken me a while to get round to reading the book - I’m not sure it quite lived up to my enjoyment of the movie version, but it was still great. I listened to the audiobook, read by Russell Tovey, who I love, and that really helped. I guess sometimes the character is just a bit annoying, but I don’t know why I’m so judgemental of him when there are plenty of annoying protagonists in my reading history! Anyway, what I do like about it is there’s a lot of soul-searching along the way but ultimately, the ending isn’t riding off into the sunset happy, just a grown up, this is going to work kind of happy instead.

Rating: 4 / 5